emily windsnap and the ship of lost souls

It's a rather secondary thing in the grand scheme of the story, and probably only bothers me because I loved the early books so much. My biggest trouble with this book isn't connected to the romance at all, actually. There's a little bit of that 'contrived misunderstanding' thing going on between them about how strong their feelings are for each other, but I feel like Kessler handled it really well - by making it an integral part of the plot for Emily to be unable to decide how she feels about Aaron (she has to consciously keep herself in limbo for the majority of the book), Kessler makes it a much stronger, sweeter thing when the inevitable 'revealing our feelings' scene does come around. Now that we were past the awkward 'will-we-or-won't-we' with Aaron (I hate watching people bobble about deciding whether they 'like like' each other), they became a very interesting pair. Where the previous books had begun to feel a little flat, I think Emily's relationship with Aaron (and, to a certain extent, her friendship with Mandy) helped to ground the book and make the inter-personal relationships interesting once more. Thirteen-year-olds falling into 'like' and becoming boyfriend and girlfriend really isn't my thing, you know?īut somehow things clicked for me in this one. When Aaron was first introduced, I thought it was a very desperate move - and one I didn't approve of. After all, you can't write five books after a book that could very well be a standalone, and not begin to scrape the bottom of the barrel. I've been reading the Emily Windsnap books as they came out for years and years, and my opinion of the series has slowly declined as I outgrew the target audience, and the books themselves became more and more watered down (no pun intended). That was five books, and seven years, ago. I fell in love with the premise, the characters, the twisty plot - everything. I was nine when I read the first Emily Windsnap book - the girl two doors down lent it to me with her high recommendation, and I devoured it in under a week.

Emily windsnap and the ship of lost souls